Gunnerkrigg Court

Maybe it's indeed because of Annie's human ancestry? I imagine pureblood fire elementals are numerous and can procreate without limitations. That would also explain why we can't see them - they're always in the Ether.

And again, how many Half-Human Hybrids are there in the Gunnerkrigg 'verse at all? There are fairies and forest animals turning into humans, there was Kat's boyfriend and his family who got turned into birds, and as far as we know they still count as regulars.

It kinda makes sense that Annie is the only such person.

Edited by Millership on Nov 12th 2018 at 7:20:43 PM

Maybe its the cross-breeding that screws things up. Or fire elementals are created from some natural source rather than being born out of pairings of each other and being involved in that at all is throwing the magibiology off.

Dang ninja.

Edited by Adannor on Nov 12th 2018 at 4:17:40 PM

I don't know, Court Annie's projection looks odd to me.

Though if splitting the flame really is possible and this isn't some trick, yeah, I think the Carvers should be super pissed.

Eh, Carvers would have been screwed either way. It's the Coyote we're talking about here.

Even if Tony had realized what's going on with his wife, or Surma had asked outright, Coyote's gifts come with a long string of side effects attached that they're not even aware of.

Now I'm thinking about that first union. Annie and her mother had human bodies so they'd just give birth normally. The first fire elemental would have been a flame creature all the time. The logistics of conception and pregnancy with a human seem...questionable.

I noticed it too. The hair seems long and to be splitting oddly. Might be an effect of her cutting her hair, but it never looked like that before. Furthermore, we can't see the face. This sort of thing is often relevant. Forest!Annie expression in the following panel is unclear also, should could be seeing something we aren't.

I was going to say this page confirmed both were real, but now I am wondering if Court!Annie is not fake after all. She doesn't seem to know that, though.

I think the hair looks funky because the connection is messed up. If Loup split the fire elemental essence it might be affecting that. The hair is a visual indicator of this.

That would make sense. But Forest!Annie doesn't have that. And, as I said, the lack of face is a bit suspicious.

I think it's just cause court annie has short hair

Someone in the comments said he might have stolen Annie's ethereal crown. Not sure, but it might be something

IS THAT A MOTHERFUCKING JOJO REF— ah forget it

How long was Annie's hair when she went to talk with Loup, anyway?

Looks like it was a little longer than Court Annie's currently is.

2070

The preliminary stages of mystery getting solved.

Edited by Millership on Nov 14th 2018 at 3:29:37 PM

Ysengrin? Oh. She never learned his name, so she's been thinking of him as Ysengrin-with-power all this time...

Or Loup appeared to her as Ysengrin with no changes.

The Ysengrin we see appear in front of her looks more like one of those tree wolves. Not even his normal look let alone the blue and red stripes.

He still has the stripes, but the monochrome style of the panel just renders them as lines. Still looks like Loup to me.

He kinda looks like he is in his regular, weakened, non-tree-power armor state to me.

He has both ears. There's a line around the base of the nearer one to indicate it's where Coyote's ear is poking up through the stump of Ysengrin's.

No, court-Annie calling him Ysengrin is pretty clearly just indicating that Loup kicked her out of the forest before the conversation reached this page. In fact, by her narrative it happened right here, with his first lines of "welcome, welcome" being replaced by "get out now."

Shots fired.

that is very rude Annie

It's a very Annie thing to say.

And to me it basically confirms that they're both real. Etheric and human sides split, perhaps? Annie talking to Loup seemed more, well, fiery than she's been in awhile.

Oh, Antimony, blunt as ever.

Knowing Tom's reliance on visual cues, I wonder if there were hints at what was actually happening during Annie and Loup's conversation... Gotta reread those chapters.

Why would this comment confirm both are real?

Why do you say this confirm both are real? For me it is the opposite. It means that what Forest!Annie saw here was not as convincing for her as it was for Court!Annie. There is a disconnect there, which to me implies they are not the same and, thus, not both real.

It is kinda hard to tell which. Either Court!Annie fakeness is obvious to Forest!Annie or Forest!Annie fakeness prevent her from seeing Court!Annie for what she really is.